Though the movie does explain what a Sampo is, the MST3K characters are talking during the explanation and miss it, and are therefore confused throughout the film as to what exactly a " Sampo " is, and argue about it their own theories throughout the rest of the episode.

The movie was featured in episode number 3. 21 of Mystery Science Theater 3000 and a new version by the MST3K spinoff Cinematic Titanic became available in late November 2008.

* The MST3K version of the film was released by Rhino Home Video as part of the Essentials DVD set.

In 1993, the television comedy series Mystery Science Theater 3000 ( MST3K ), a show based on the premise of mocking B movies, featured Manos: The Hands of Fate, giving the film cult status.

During a Q & A session at the 2008 San Diego Comic-Con International, a question was put to the cast and writers of MST3K about any movie they passed on that was worse than Manos, and many cited the film Child Bride.

While Nelson and fellow MST3K alum Kevin Murphy were part of the cast when MST3K riffed on Manos, their fellow Rifftrax star Bill Corbett nor their writers were not involved in the original episode ; the riffing was expected to be all new.

The MST3K episode featuring the film was released on DVD on its own in 2001, and in the Mystery Science Theater 3000 Essentials collection in 2004.

Factory released a special edition of the film which includes both the MST3K and uncut versions called Manos y Manos.

The horror film Blood Hook was filmed in Hayward, Wisconsin by MST3K co-creator Jim Mallon.

Crow T. Robot is a fictional character from the American science fiction comedy television series Mystery Science Theater 3000 ( MST3K ).

According to the MST3K storyline, Crow — like his fellow robots Tom Servo, Gypsy, and Cambot — was built by Joel Robinson, who created them to help him withstand the torment of watching bad movies on the Satellite of Love.

In the pilot for MST3K, the robot who would become Servo was named " Beeper ," who just spoke in beeps that only Crow could understand.

In 1936, Husing narrated " Catching Trouble ," a Paramount non-sports newsreel documentary that would gain later prominence as a short subject on Mystery Science Theater 3000, during which the MST3K characters would parody Husing's distinctive delivery.

MSTing or MiSTing is a method of mocking a show in the style of the television series Mystery Science Theater 3000 ( MST3K ) and, in particular, is a form of fan fiction in which writers mock other works by inserting humorous comments, called " riffs ", into the flow of dialogue and events.

While " standard " MSTings attribute these comments to the three main characters of the MST3K cast, others might use characters-usually ( though not always ) from the universe of the story being mocked.

Over time, the term MST has also been used to describe general fan fiction mockeries, without the use of the MST3K character-based joke format.

MSTing began in the early 1990s, as fans of the show, many of whom were involved in Usenet discussions in groups such as popular MST3K newsgroup rec. arts. tv. mst3k. misc, began adding amusing or critical remarks to others ' posts, attributing them to the show's characters ( typically, Crow T. Robot, Tom Servo, Joel Robinson, and later Mike Nelson ).

In 2007 MST3K was listed as " one of the top 100 television shows of all time " by Time. com.

Conniff was appearing in a North Dakota venue when he was informed by MST3K head writer Nelson of his selection as the replacement for one of the show's originals, Josh Weinstein.

The film was featured in the final episode of season four of Mystery Science Theater 3000 ( MST3K ) on January 30, 1993, preceded by the second half of the short Chevrolet training film Hired!

So far it is the only time Michael J. Nelson, Bill Corbett and Kevin Murphy have appeared as their MST3K characters Mike Nelson, Crow T. Robot and Tom Servo since MST3K was cancelled.

The film Killers from Space was featured in The Film Crew, Michael J. Nelson's follow-up to MST3K.

With his MST3K co-stars Kevin Murphy and Bill Corbett, he was part of a comedy team called " The Film Crew " which has created comedy segments for N. P. R.

As co-star and writer Kevin Murphy explained, Nelson was many things " but he's not a tinkerer "; the invention exchanges had in any case been vehicles for Joel to engage in the sort of prop-based comedy he had specialised in before MST3K, and Nelson's strengths lay more in the portrayal of comic characters.

Joel was the host of MST3K from 1988 to 1993.

The movie was featured in episode 301 of Mystery Science Theater 3000 ( MST3K ).

* The MST3K version of the film was released by Rhino Home Video as part of the Collection, Volume 2 DVD set.

The series gained notoriety in 1991 after a re-edited version of the second installment, released as Cave Dwellers, was lampooned on the television series Mystery Science Theater 3000 ( MST3K ).

The movie was the basis of an episode of the cable television show Mystery Science Theater 3000 ( MST3K ) during its fifth season.

This episode of MST3K ( during which the movie is shown, and heckled ) was released on DVD in 2001.

TV's Frank's first MST3K episode was episode # 201 Rocketship X-M, where, apparently still in his Arby's mindset, he took fast-food orders and, rather to Dr. Forrester's annoyance, almost brought the Satellite of Love down so the crew could " dine in.

MSTie fics imitate the style of the Mystery Science Theater 3000 programs: the commentators are usually three in number ( sometimes they are MST3K characters ), the fic opens with an introductory dialogue or situation which continues as a mini-plot during several " intermission " sequences ( between blocks of the riffed fanfic ), and comes to a conclusion at the end.

ESPN Classic broadcast an all-day marathon of Cheap Seats episodes on Thanksgiving Day 2004, an homage to the similar marathons of MST3K that were frequently run on Comedy Central during Thanksgiving in the first half of the 1990s.

It was during this period that he struck up friendships with future MST3K stalwarts Michael J. Nelson, Trace Beaulieu, Bridget Jones and others, as well as Lizz Winstead, later co-creator of " The Daily Show " on the Comedy Central network.

He was a writer and performer on the cult television show Mystery Science Theater 3000 ( MST3K ), for which he voiced the robot Crow T. Robot during the show's later seasons on the Sci Fi Channel and played the character Observer and other minor roles.

Stevenson has been referenced in television episodes of The Simpsons ( in the episodes " Lisa the Iconoclast " and " The Secret War of Lisa Simpson "), The Golden Girls, Happy Days ( in the January 28, 1975, episode " The Not Making of the President ") and Mystery Science Theater 3000s presentation of Manos: The Hands of Fate ( a Stevenson lookalike buys a car and one of the MST3K characters comments on it ).

It remained obscure until its Mystery Science Theater appearance, which sparked two DVD releases ( the original film and the three separate releases of DVDs featuring the MST3K episode of the film ).

The final scenes show Mike and his robot friends sometime later, now living together in a ground level apartment in Wisconsin, where Mike enjoys a bowl of rice as he sits down to watch The Crawling Eye, which had been the featured movie for the very first nationally-syndicated episode of MST3K.

Consequentially, this makes " MST3K: The Movie " shorter than the original " This Island Earth ", or even the average, 90-minute " MST3K " episode.

The first three errors in this list were brought to the attention of the " Mads " in the film's MST3K episode.

He enjoyed the MST3K treatment of the film so much that he requested a copy of the episode.

It is the second Joe Don Baker film to be riffed on MST3K, following Mitchell, to which a few references were made in this episode.

The version of the film used in the MST3K episode also contains a very prominent editing mistake.

One host segment in the MST3K episode makes reference to the editing mistake by having host Mike Nelson trip over and over again.

After the Satellite of Love crashed into the Earth in the final episode of MST3K (# 1013: Diabolik ), Gypsy is not present with Mike and the Bots in their shared apartment.

( In the MST3K version, Joel and the bots joke about him " having an episode " and swatting at " flying elves ".

In the late 1990s, the television show MST3K brought the actress to a new generation of B-movie viewers when the film was featured on an episode.